12/14/2023 0 Comments And look i am suddenly a girl simpsons![]() ![]() (*) Or, at least, that he hasn’t fully admitted to before now. – and yet at the same time managed to be a moving examination of the close relationship the Doctor wasn’t even aware of until now.(*) “The Doctor’s Wife” had all the usual “Doctor Who” tropes – a creepy, low-budget monster (in this case, one the production team never had to actually show), characters running for their lives, witty banter (I particularly liked Amy’s “Did you wish really hard?” response to the Doctor’s explanation of his new female friend), etc. Not long ago, for instance, Joss Whedon did an X-Men story arc about the Danger Room coming to life and turning against Wolverine and company, and if none of the “Star Trek” spin-offs did a technobabble-heavy episode about the starship talking back to Captain Picard/Janeway/etc., I would be shocked.īut if the concept wasn’t entirely novel, the execution was still lovely. The idea of a familiar setting or inanimate object suddenly gaining or displaying sentience is one I’ve seen before, notably in the comics milieu where Gaiman became famous. ![]() He picks up companions – usually human, but sometimes not – to hold back the loneliness, but it never works out in the long-term, and not just because he’s destined to outlive most of them by centuries.īut there’s one companion who’s been there since he began his madcap journeys across time and space – a companion he didn’t even quite realize was a companion until the revelations of Gaiman’s delightful “The Doctor’s Wife.” The Doctor is a lonely, lonely soul, and was long before he killed off virtually all of the other members of his race. “It’s always you and her, long after the rest of us have gone.” -Amy ![]() A review of tonight’s Neil Gaiman-scripted “Doctor Who” coming up just as soon as I read the instructions… ![]()
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